this post was submitted on 30 Nov 2025
17 points (84.0% liked)

Linux Gaming

22296 readers
209 users here now

Discussions and news about gaming on the GNU/Linux family of operating systems (including the Steam Deck). Potentially a $HOME away from home for disgruntled /r/linux_gaming denizens of the redditarian demesne.

This page can be subscribed to via RSS.

Original /r/linux_gaming pengwing by uoou.

No memes/shitposts/low-effort posts, please.

Resources

WWW:

Discord:

IRC:

Matrix:

Telegram:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

So I've increasingly been seeing people glaze the hell out of the Faugus launcher (https://github.com/Faugus/faugus-launcher). In large part because Bottles is in the "But it might work for us" stage of a full rewrite and Lutris lost a lot of the core development team in the past year or two.

It is very much a question as to whether Bottles even needs to be meaningfully maintained at this point as it is more a way to streamline prefix management. But Lutris could definitely use some love.

I have been unable to find a good description of what Faugus actually IS. Mostly just people regurgitating/Reacting to the Faugus team's PR videos and some REALLY annoying youtubers who clearly are emulating pewdiepie as it were.

At some point I'll probably just sit around and test it (I have a new laptop to provision after all...). But would love to hear some feedback or see some coverage (and maybe find an influencer I don't actively want to push into traffic in the process...) to sell me on it. Because, near as I can tell, it doesn't seem to support the wide range of user scripts that Lutris has to make most games a double click to install? It really seems closer to a Bottles replacement? Which... if there are enough features then sure but... yeah.

Thanks

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

From what I understand which isn't much: Faugus gave me the impression it's using that Debian based Steam runtime and makes it sound like Lutris, Bottles, etc don't even if you're using Proton. Does it matter? You tell me.

In practice I've not noticed any difference when I tested it out on a couple games to experiment. I don't use Faugus because Gamescope doesn't work yet according (last read a couple months ago) to their github page. If the old projects are dying then whatever. I'll use Faugus Launcher when it's actually ready.

I liked the GUI so far anyways so I won't be upset if I have to switch.